In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal intertwined stories.

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life ami...

A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to ...

After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is g...

Spring 1995 - after the closure of the Needle Park and the public drug scene in Zurich, eleven-year-...

Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he...

Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some fr...

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong,...

After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorit...

Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show busin...

At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance ...

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solvi...

The hunky John is a closeted small-town cop who moves to L.A., where he is quickly seduced into the ...

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husban...

Darren Aronofsky’s AFI short opens with angry slacker Dave sitting in a dreary, empty junkyard. Dave...

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll i...

Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA s...
A filmed sequence dramatizes the problems addressed in the program: the story of a working mother ad...

Suffering from addiction and homelessness, Abigail wanders the city on a cold winter late afternoon,...

"Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnan...